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Dockside

I turned unused space around the macOS Dock into a workspace

Details

External ID
48777962
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Dockside
Website domain
hachipoo.com
Launched
July 3, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.1081242532855436
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
macOS and desktop customization tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
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Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
macos dock workspace extension
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a native macOS shelf utility managing window frames, pasteboard events, and drag-and-drop file staging, all of which are standard AppKit and SwiftUI capabilities easily built with AI assistance.

Discussion

4 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Space Drop, Dropzone, Spotlight, Cmd+Tab

Concerns raised: Dock takes up unnecessary screen space

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 390 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #360 of 391 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 239 days after the earliest competitor.

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